Category Archives: IPR

Source: KEI 26th June, 2019 On Monday, 24 June 2019, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered this opening statement at WIPO’s 30th Session of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). The Committee elected a new chair, Sarah Whitehead, … Continue reading →

Source: Intellectual Property Watch | May 25, 2018 On the side of this week’s World Health Assembly and hours before the Assembly agreed on preparing a roadmap on access to medicines, two civil society groups held an event on the … Continue reading →

Source: Scroll.in | May 02, 2018 India’s patent laws are under attack again. This time, too, the target is a provision not commonly found in patent laws elsewhere. This rule requires patent holders to disclose whether they are working their … Continue reading →

Source: The Hindu | April 15, 2018 Submission on interpretation of a domestic patent law raises eyebrows The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has demanded the elimination of ‘Form 27’— a statutory requirement unique to India’s patent law … Continue reading →

Source: Knowledge Ecology International | March 14, 2018 On March 12, 2018, the European Commission published a report on the “protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in third countries”. The main objective of the report “is to identify third countries … Continue reading →

by PT Jyothi Datta | The HinduBusinessLine Indian pharma pushes back against US trade body’s criticism of its IPR protection record For the past five years, a lone Indian pharmaceutical representation goes out to the Office of the US Trade … Continue reading →

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